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architecture of Morgan

...in the Bay area. After World War I she began work in earnest for the publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, who in 1919 commissioned her to build a country house that came to be known as Hearst Castle at his family ranch at San Simeon, California. Hearst commissioned several other residences from her as well. Morgan was involved with the building project at San Simeon for 28 years....

furnishings by Hearst

...well as several magazines. He also published books of fiction and produced motion pictures featuring the actress Marion Davies, his mistress for more than 30 years. In the 1920s he built a grandiose castle on a 240,000-acre (97,000-hectare) ranch in San Simeon, California, and he furnished this residential complex with a vast collection of antiques and art objects that he had bought in Europe....

location in San Simeon

...his new estate La Cuesta Encantada (Spanish: “The Enchanted Hill”) because of its hilltop site in the Santa Lucia Range. The main residence, the 60,000-square-foot (5,600-square-metre)
La Casa Grande (Spanish: “The Big House”), is a Mediterranean Revival building that contains 115 rooms—including 38 bedrooms and 41 bathrooms—and has a cathedral-like facade,...